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Human Centipede 2 Gets Banned From UK Theaters

Just a few days ago we announced that Tom Six’s sequel to The Human Centipede was going before the BBFC to get it’s rating certificate and whether or not any cuts needed to be made.

Well, according to Empire the BBFC have simply outright banned Tom Six’s The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence from the UK. (which includes theatres and DVD) The BBFC have released a statement as to why they have decided to outright ban the film.

This actually sounds like it will turn out freaking brutal and totally bad-ass, why couldn’t they have banned the first film for being over hyped instead of this one which sounds promising. That is, if you like that type of thing.

I think it’s very pointless in banning a film as it makes it even more sort after as people want to see what all the fuss is about. So banning part 2 is possibly the greatest thing Tom Six could have ever asked for.

You can read the BBFC’s statement below but beware, as it is full of spoilers.

Is this censorship gone too far? Or are they really saving us from such depravities. I’d much rather watch fictional explicit violence in the form of film instead of watching or reading something on the news.

“The first film dealt with a mad doctor who sews together three kidnapped people in order to produce the ‘human centipede’of the title. Although the concept of the film was undoubtedly tasteless and disgusting it was a relatively traditional and conventional horror film and the Board concluded that it was not in breach of our Guidelines at ‘18’. This new work, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), tells the story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of the first film and who imagines putting the ‘centipede’ idea into practice. Unlike the first film, the sequel presents graphic images of sexual violence, forced defecation, and mutilation, and the viewer is invited to witness events from the perspective of the protagonist. Whereas in the first film the ‘centipede’ idea is presented as a revolting medical experiment, with the focus on whether the victims will be able to escape, this sequel presents the ‘centipede’ idea as the object of the protagonist’s depraved sexual fantasy.

The principal focus of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is the sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture, and murder of his naked victims. Examples of this include a scene early in the film in which he masturbates whilst he watches a DVD of the original Human Centipede film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis, and a sequence later in the film in which he becomes aroused at the sight of the members of the ‘centipede’ being forced to defecate into one another’s mouths, culminating in sight of the man wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the rear of the ‘centipede’. There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience. There is a strong focus throughout on the link between sexual arousal and sexual violence and a clear association between pain, perversity and sexual pleasure. It is the Board’s conclusion that the explicit presentation of the central character’s obsessive sexually violent fantasies is in breach of its Classification Guidelines and poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers.

David Cooke, Director of the BBFC said:“It is the Board’s carefully considered view that to issue a certificate to this work, even if confined to adults, would be inconsistent with the Board’s Guidelines, would risk potential harm within the terms of the VRA, and would be unacceptable to the public.

“The Board also seeks to avoid classifying material that may be in breach of the Obscene Publications Acts 1959 and 1964 (OPA) or any other relevant legislation. The OPA prohibits the publication of works that have a tendency to deprave or corrupt a significant proportion of those likely to see them. In order to avoid classifying potentially obscene material, the Board engages in regular discussions with the relevant enforcement agencies, including the CPS, the police, and the Ministry of Justice. It is the Board’s view that there is a genuine risk that this video work, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), may be considered obscene within the terms of the OPA, for the reasons given above.”

I didn’t think there WAS a best part of the first one. I was bored out of my mind. Once you read the title you really don’t need to see the film. It’s exactly what it sounds like. No surprise, not even shock. I was dumbfounded at how shocked I wasn’t. lol

But the opposite of that is just as bad. I don’t believe in censorship but I do believe in attempting NOT to die from boredom. So I will probably avoid this one anyway.